Wait, how much of the current walls get stolen each year? https://www.google.com/amp/s/foreignpolicy.com/2009/08/27/mexican-thieves-try-to-steal-border-fence/amp/ There are reports, but no indication on how prevalent it is. Part of it there isn't very much fencing, and the mileage that is fenced is...

Look, I know Trump is far worse than Obama. But the difference is that the media doesn't have the metaphorical hardon for the president the way they did with Obama. The public knows Trump is a lying anus who's been hiding as much as he can from us, or at least has been constantly told by the media. ...

Well CU is cheating because he's combining Bush, Reagan with Clinton and Obama. Was Bush worse than Trump? No, but he had an awful reign with torture (Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition, Iraq death toll), and the corruption symbolized by Cheney. Reagan had all sorts of problems, despite how he's d...

The Butterfly Effect Is it a bad movie? I don't think so, but the overwhelming majority of critics think so even though IMDB seems to think it's a good movie. The lead was Ashton Kutcher, who you may remember as a total prick, so critics panned the movie. There were some silly issues I had with the ...

I mean, fair's fair; there's plenty of times I see people engaging in 'frivolous' hate -- hate that's clearly not a survival mechanic, or doesn't come from a clearly identifiable place of pain (people sending death-threats to Anita Sarkeesian, for example). Uh... it's really not that hard. It's guy...

Wikipedia on Hadrians Wall Notable quote The limites of Rome were never expected to stop tribes from migrating or armies from invading, and while a frontier protected by a palisade or stone wall would help curb cattle-raiders and the incursions of other small groups, the economic viability of const...

Border walls are not about serious security. Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall of China were never meant to stop invading armies. Rather, they were meant to stop smugglers and cattle thieves and other petty criminals. In those regards, they were extremely successful. As far as stopping illegal immig...

Of course they are criminals and so forth, thats why crime has been increasing since they arrived, except for the last 30 years when crime rates plummeted to their lowest in history, but we all know that facts are lies!

Short Selling has a legitimate purpose in the stock world. Let's say Company A is in the news for some really cool new idea that'll totally radicalize the world to the xtreme, yo. A few gullible idiots want to buy Company A, and with far more buyers than sellers the stock price of Company A is skyro...

Hmm. What is the cost to lay coaxial cable, per foot? Like, if a town has 500 miles of streets, how much would it cost for the city to conect everyone to the internet, should internet become like water/sewer and mandatory for all homes but only like, $5/m due to, you know, being much easier to insta...

I would say that the root cause is a culture of conflict resolution that views the total eradication of opponents as the preferred method rather than persuasion or reconciliation. ...which is in large part created by the media that we consume. I think the root cause is a complicated web of factors ...

The town has to cover fixed and variable costs. Comcast can use other towns to cover the fixed costs while this town could be charged the variable cost only, allowing Comcast to always undercut the town if they truly wanted to. This does not get in to the bundle packages of internet, cell and cable,...

P/NP rants The P/NP problems always bugged me due to impossible combinations being checked. For instance, a common problem is "in this list of X numbers, do any sum to 0?". The brute force method is to check every combination, which if there are 100 numbers is 2^100 combinations to check, ...

Huh, I just realized a few parallels between homeless and refugees... You just realized that? Congratulations, I suppose. Specifically, the responses towards the people, not the situations and the people themselves. Refugees were always a type of homeless people, though with some crucial difference...

Was hypothetical numbers, it varies wildly throughout the country. But nearly everyone in IT and related agrees that the Telecoms are basically the Devil when it comes to abuse by big business. I disagree, I feel that Rx is worse, but hey, hell has enough room for more than one Prince of Darkness. A...

1) It's what actually happened in the 90's in NY state, minus the funds being sent upstate with them. Guilliani rounded up all the Bowery Bums and sent them to the nice farms upstate, which is just one in a long list of reasons the rest of NY despises NYC 2) Never suggested it would be forced 3) If ...

Not entirely flippant. From what I understand, the ones with family ties, jobs, etc, are most likely living on their friends'/families' sofas until they find a more permanent solution, in which case money isn't really being spent on sheltering them. The ones in the shelters tend to be the ones with ...

I would. You figure, you have 10,000 households all paying $100/m for internet at speeds of 5 MBs. That's $12m that leaves the town. Every. Single. Year. Never to return. You spend $5m of municipal money to start up an alternative, and suddenly the price of the local internet drops to $60/m at speed...

Ninja'd No, it's because New York freezes over in the winter and swelters in the summer, while California has decent weather year-round. If California doesn't pay for the homeless, they end up in tent cities. If NY doesn't pay for the homeless, they end up in prisons and hospitals. Though if NY is s...